Event-Triggering Sampling Based Leader-Following Consensus in Second-Order Multi-Agent Systems

abstract

• 1963-2012 IEEE. In this note, the problem of second-order leader-following consensus by a novel distributed event-triggered sampling scheme in which agents exchange information via a limited communication medium is studied. Event-based distributed sampling rules are designed, where each agent decides when to measure its own state value and requests its neighbor agents broadcast their state values across the network when a locally-computed measurement error exceeds a state-dependent threshold. For the case of fixed topology, a necessary and sufficient condition is established. For the case of switching topology, a sufficient condition is obtained under the assumption that the time-varying directed graph is uniformly jointly connected. It is shown that the inter-event intervals are lower bounded by a strictly positive constant, which excludes the Zeno-behavior before the consensus is achieved. Numerical simulation examples are provided to demonstrate the correctness of theoretical results.

authors

• Huang, Tingwen

published proceedings

• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL

author list (cited authors)

• Li, H., Liao, X., Huang, T., & Zhu, W.

citation count

• 477

complete list of authors

• Li, Huaqing||Liao, Xiaofeng||Huang, Tingwen||Zhu, Wei

publication date

• July 2015

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control  Journal

keywords

• Distributed Control
• Event-triggering
• Leader-following
• Multi-agent Systems
• Second-order Consensus

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/TAC.2014.2365073

start page

• 1998

end page

• 2003

volume

• 60

issue

• 7

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tac.2014.2365073